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Re: The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack – What. The. Fuck.

Gmonday — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:07:30 -0000

Hey, I'm PRETTY sure this show is rated TVY7. Therefore is serves your little 4 year old right to be petrified at the sheer awesomeness that is The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapples and K'nuckies.

Re: Hey DVD People, Stop with the Forced Trailers.

Michel — Sat, 21 May 2011 23:47:57 -0000

My wife and I just sat
through 14 minutes of forced DVD previews that we can not skip, stop or
avoid. If there are DVD features that even the menu button or online
tricks to stop/start can't fix then Warner Brothers is FORCING us to
watch previews and ads? I don't think so! In the past
month we have purchased two DVD's that had the same problem. I returned
them both to the retailers and said they were broken - to me they were
broken. Seriously, if I own the DVD, I don't need to see
14 minutes of previews for other movies. If I want a "movie experience"
I go to the movies. Does your car force you sit through a
sales pitch every time you put in the key? Does the Bank force you
read a "free checking" brochure while you wait in line? Does the
supermarket force you to go down every aisle if all you want to buy is
milk? All studios are going to do is upset customers.
When they force viewers to watch their paid ads, all they are doing is
forcing us to walk away from their content. By the time the movie
starts, we've lost interest... I can say for SURE that I will avoid
Warner Bros. movies, for this reason alone. Next stop,
Amazon, my blog, and comments on sites that sell WB titles. Let's see
what the social network of friends, colleagues and the rest of the
online community think of their heavy-handed advertising. Happy
customers are the best advertising - unhappy customers are like a virus.
Congratulations, WB, you have started your very own virus factory!
From now on, I will let the forced previews play in the "muted"
background and use that time to post complaints in as many sites as
possible. It looks like after this post, I'll still have another 12 minutes of writing ahead of me. Cheers!

Re: My Social Media Circle Just Got Smaller

Stewie — Tue, 10 May 2011 01:10:10 -0000

That Akira thread was my one and only experience with FriendFeed. You are spot on about the debate. The moment I said who cares, it's a racist thing, then I'm immediately blocked by three people. Jackasses.

Re: My Social Media Circle Just Got Smaller

JamesFerguson — Sun, 08 May 2011 08:52:28 -0000

Agreed. I think it's just tough to filter out that noise now unless I turn off the "Friend of a Friend" feature as to avoid the random pictures of people looking for attention. I liked that if I shared a link on FriendFeed it ended up on Facebook too but now I just put it directly on Facebook.

Re: My Social Media Circle Just Got Smaller

Mark Trapp — Sat, 07 May 2011 23:18:16 -0000

The only reason I stuck with FriendFeed for so long was that it was really easy to filter out the noise and follow about a dozen people I cared about (including you). But there's not much left there, and I'm finally getting used to Facebook and Twitter's user experiences. Oh well: FriendFeed had a good run.

Re: Help Save Drizzle & Juno

Marilyn — Tue, 03 May 2011 00:26:23 -0000

I don't know if you are still picking up emails, but I am so sorry about Drizzle. I have a Drizzle and he got out Friday night and we are looking for him. I've done everything I can think of and will continue to put out fliers and contact shelters for as long as it takes to bring him back. Your story will give me the courage to keep trying.

Bless you and I hope little Juno is okay.

Re: On the Subject of Reviewing

JamesFerguson — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:44:05 -0000

I've definitely had some cool stuff. I think I'm going to hit that wall sooner or later and the bitterness will come out. For the most part there's been a lot of potential in the stuff that I haven't liked. It's just been wasted by the creators being lazy and cutting corners or they don't have a proofreader.

Re: On the Subject of Reviewing

Stewie — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:26:23 -0000

Yeah, it's a tough game. You have to muscle through a bunch of that to get to true gold. It always seems that just when I've reached my point of disgust with people who don't seem to care about their craft, something great comes along and makes everything prior worthwhile.

Re: No Wonder The Postal Service is in Trouble

JamesFerguson — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:02:51 -0000

Thanks Eric. I'm not surprised that I'm not the only one that has issues with the USPS. I wish I could handle everything through UPS but I still need some basic stuff sent through the mail. For a government organization, I can't believe it's this messed up.

Re: No Wonder The Postal Service is in Trouble

Eric Smith — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:56:13 -0000

I know I am way late on this post, but I found your site through Sidequesting.com (I'm a writer there). Anyway, you don't know the half of it. I worked at the USPS until it's being crushed my soul and I couldn't handle it anymore. You would think for being the second largest public company in the US, they would have their shit together. Nope.

In the case of you not having your mail held, that is a typical double-fail. One on the part of the clerk for not making sure the carrier knew it was on hold, and the other on the carrier for not manually putting your mail on hold after 10 days of inactivity.

There is an office in just about every town, yea? Guess how many of these offices follow the same direction? Not many. Each postmaster and supervisor has their own way of doing things, and hell be damned if they are going to change based on an overarching plan.

Case in point: I worked in a level 21 office (medium-large) and we were the stepping stone for postmasters to get into even bigger offices. In my tenure, there was 3 new postmasters there. Each one wanted to rearrange the mail-sorting cases to make the layout 'work better'. I was one of two maintenance guys (I also did rural delivery) and the moving of these 700 pound top-heavy cases fell unto us. No matter our complaints, and the complaints of the clerks (who are like sergeants in the USMC, they make the whole shebang work) they would still insist on us moving 25 of these cases every few months to make everything 'work better'.

The only thing that happened was our backs getting really fucked up. So, last June when my partner took a job in Florida, I went to my old job and started doing freelance writing.

Why did I tell you all of this? I don't even use the post office to deliver my mail anymore. I handle everything via UPS.

Re: The Old Ball and Chain

JamesFerguson — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:13:22 -0000

One day, Stewie. One day.

Otherwise you can just marry Shiki and get it over with. [/TGM]

Re: What is the Baby Doing in the Apple Pie Exactly?

JamesFerguson — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:12:07 -0000

Thanks! This was my first try at actually editing something together. Unfortunately the band has since broken up...sort of.

Re: The Old Ball and Chain

Stewie — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:09:31 -0000

Awesome, awesome, awesome wedding vows. I hope to meet someone who will be down with such things.

Re: What is the Baby Doing in the Apple Pie Exactly?

Stewie — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:05:19 -0000

Nice mixing of the various performances. I also dig the babies at the table having apple pie. lollers.

Re: The DVDSpot Replacement Players

Korakrit Jariyasathian — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:22:33 -0000

What do you mean everyone's

Re: No, Seriously, This is Our Year. We Mean it This Time.

bri oneill — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:42:53 -0000

if its sticky on the other side, you stick it on your dashboard and then put your phone/ipod on it. it prevents it from sliding away!

Re: No, Seriously, This is Our Year. We Mean it This Time.

JamesFerguson — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:02:14 -0000

It's definitely not a mouse mat. It's about the size of a mouse to begin with and the part on the top is flat and only slightly larger than the rest of it. Plus, if placed that way, the logo would be upside down so it wouldn't make sense.

Re: No, Seriously, This is Our Year. We Mean it This Time.

Guest — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 09:11:57 -0000

It's a mouse mat. The large bit of rubber is a wrist rest there pretty common.

Re: No, Seriously, This is Our Year. We Mean it This Time.

JamesFerguson — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:54:36 -0000

I'll hook you up with some flash drives.

I thought it was a mouse pad at first too, but it's made of a weird rubbery plastic which wouldn't work with a mouse.

Re: No, Seriously, This is Our Year. We Mean it This Time.

Anthony Moreno — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:39:43 -0000

I'll take a few of those flash drives off your hands...and that looks like a fancy mouse pad.

Re: I Accept This Challenge…From Myself

The Wife — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:36:21 -0000

hahaha. go back to your regular spending after the wedding?!! You wish. After the wedding, the budget is coming back into my hands.

Re: James’ Adventure to the Redneck Pep Boys of Maryland

JamesFerguson — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:16:41 -0000

What was great was on the way home I listened to some of David Cross' stand up. He does a bit where he explains that that "Redneck voice" is something that people identify with the South but it can be found all across the country in every single state.

Re: James’ Adventure to the Redneck Pep Boys of Maryland

Stewie — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:59:07 -0000

"Plus he talked like he just came up from Alabama or something."

Around that area, he was probably from Dundalk. Which is like Alabama, but worse.

Re: They’re All Going to Be Somebody

JamesFerguson — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:34:22 -0000

I'm definitely making it down for at least a day or two of the shoot. Just hoping it's at least some of the days fall on a weekend.

Re: They’re All Going to Be Somebody

Stewie — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:16:25 -0000

Oh, totally stole the picture for facebook.